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pushed a button to roll up the window that divided the front
from the back part of the car, so Mama wouldn't hear the sound of
laughter turn to the sweet soft sighing of sex.

The Cadillac took them right through Newark that first night
of the riot and passed the roadblocks the state police had set
up, to cordon off the "trouble area." Some of the cops
even saluted the limousine as it went by, probably figuring it
was carrying a high political official or somebody equally
important to their careers. The rest of the night was spent
partying in Mercer's downtown pad with Emmett finally returning
to the Chelsea Hotel around dawn, the sister who didn't like to
wear panties hanging on his arm, happy for a moment away from
home.

The Newark riot lasted five more days with Abbot Hoffman
getting into the act by callir~g for "Food for Newark
Spades" to be donated at a specified time in Greenwich
Village's Washington Square Park. Abbot and his cronies collected
about seven or eight cardboard cartons of canned food and brought
it over to Tom Hayden who was in Newark, heading the Newark
Community Urban Project, facing at that time the terribly
difficult decision of whether or not to join the federal
government's War on Poverty program. The war on poverty is now,
of course, over. Poverty won.

Anyway, Hoffman later exploited to his benefit these few
cartons of canned goods which nobody ate, but used as missiles
when they ran out of bricks. He claimed in several press
conferences that he and his comrades were "Diggers" and
that "Diggers are niggers," and, therefore, they
smuggled in ". . . seven truckloads in all" to their
". . . underground soul brothers SNCC and NCUP." By
using the name "Diggers" which the press had long
associated with "Free Food," Hoffman changed a few
boxes of Campbell's soup cans and several truckloads of tripsters
sightseeing the "riot" into "seven
truckloads" of loaves and fishes which they ". . . had
a ball passing out! "

The last night Emmett stayed at the Chelsea Hotel in New York,
he was talking with Danny the Riff and some of the Grateful Dead
people about a "Trip Without a Ticket to Europe" to be
completely "free" and unexploited by the media. It
would not be for sale! There happened to be a reporter for the Village
Voice in the room at the time, the late Don McNeill, and he
wrote an article entitled "Trip Without a Ticket to Invade
Europe" with no one's permission and blew the whole thing
out the window. The avarice of film companies like Warner
Brothers made it impossible for the [end page 438]